When researching her biography, Wendy Moffat tells us, Christopher Isherwood, a lifelong friend of E. M. Forster, advised her, "Unless you start with the fact that he was homosexual, nothing's any good at all." Moffat took that to heart. In doing so she gives us a different biography from what we...

This series certainly started off with a bang! The author grabbed me by my lady balls and led me to all the places she wanted me to go! That, however, was the first book. This is the second. This one I liked a lot less but it had some good points too!Marissa was only an okay heroine for me. I thi...

NO SPOILERS!!!This book recounts the life of Nonna Lisowskaja Bannister. It is another biography based on a woman living through the holocaust. However, Nonna is not Jewish. She was raised according to the practises of the Russian Orthodox Church. Her grandfather was a Cossack and although he die...